Residency Program in Psychiatry

Psychotherapy Training

Excellent psychotherapy training is essential for all psychiatry residents, regardless of their ultimate career goals. The Psychotherapy Training Program at Mount Sinai includes clinical and didactic experiences designed to help the resident progress from a basic understanding of the principles underlying all forms of psychotherapy to a more sophisticated familiarity with more specialized psychotherapeutic approaches.

Residents at Mount Sinai achieve basic competency in psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), and supportive psychotherapy. Training is also available in advanced psychodynamic psychotherapy, short-term dynamic psychotherapy, advanced CBT, dialectical behavior therapy, interpersonal therapy, couples and family therapy, and group therapy.

Mount Sinai has a particular strength in teaching and supervising resident in psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy. Due to our affiliation agreement with The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI) - the oldest psychoanalytic organization in the country - much of the instruction in psychodynamic psychotherapy training for the Mount Sinai Adult Psychiatry Residents is provided by faculty from the NYPSI. This includes classroom instruction, continuous case seminars and individual supervision of psychotherapy treatments.

The NYPSI provides an enriched psychodynamic curriculum to the already strong research and biological psychiatry component of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai. Psychoanalytic training can be facilitated for Mount Sinai residents with a strong interest in psychoanalytic training and by the Psychiatry department's flexibility, which can allow residents to begin psychoanalytic training during their PGY-IV year.

In addition to the direct education component of the affiliation, The NYPSI and The Mount Sinai School of Medicine plan for joint research projects with the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Psychology.